Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Does is the reaction of the Congress – the hasty withdrawal of the affidavit (claimed that mythological texts cannot be regarded as “historical record” and they don’t prove the existence of characters mentioned in those texts), now divisions within the Congress, the shamefacedness on part of them – surprising. Is the Congress worried about losing out on Hindu sentiments?"

What the hell does that mean?? It's not even a valid English sentence! Except for the question they ask at the end. If the Congress uses such English, I won't be too surprised if they lose out on all sentiments, not just Hindu ones.

3 comments:

It does not mean anything. Probably, IBN people also didn't intend to say anything that was meaningful. CNN-IBN - Whatever it takes to fill the space.

By saying that Congress will lose out on all sentiments, you are discounting the sentiments of people comfortable only with SMS-English. Since a large majority of English knowing people are comfortable only with that, they are on a fairly strong wicket.